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Nobody in Congress will be eager to give Bush a postdated check for his mission to Mars without some tough scrutiny. For one thing, turf battles are sure to erupt. NASA is being asked to hack $11 billion off its current budget to free money for the new mission. Members...
Though Bush's proposal gives a booster-size lift to NASA, his devotion to the space agency is a recent conversion. He showed no great fascination with the space program while he was Governor of Texas. He never visited the Johnson Space Center even though it was just around the...
The largest doubt about Bush's program is whether it will survive past his presidency. The hardest choices about funding manned exploration will come at the very same time those crumbling entitlements require more money too. When John Kennedy first put the nation on the path to the moon in...
Using the moon as a launching pad for Mars, as President Bush suggested last week, may not be the most sensible route to the Red Planet. But that doesn't mean a return to the moon shouldn't be part of a reinvigorated human spaceflight program. There are plenty of...
Another good reason to go is the one disdained by straight-to-Mars boosters: learning how to live off the land--manufacturing some of what we need from soil that contains oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium and titanium, plus a dusting of helium, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon deposited by...